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sandroalvesbras
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Datastore of nodes

Hello,

is it possible to use the datastore space of each available node in vCenter?

Or should we not write anything in these datastores?

Thank you.

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IRIX201110141
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No... you cant use it VMs. For sure you place the scratch disk on it because its not supportet so configure it to vSanDatastore.  Maybe you can store your ISOs on.

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Joerg

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TheBobkin
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Hello sandroalvesbrasil​,

From a brief search online 'service-datastore' appear to be repository locations for VxRail-related scripts/tools and as staging location for images - these are *likely* VMFS datastores used with excess on install device (as with any standard ESXi install) of insignificant size - step 1 should be to check if they are on the same controller as the vSAN devices, if so then you should not be considering using them for VM storage (logging/coredump/ISOs is generally okay if they are durable devices), step 2 should be to find out if they are of any usable size at all or just VMFs on excess space of install as I said above.

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Bob

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